Hayden's Ferry Days Special Edition

Hayden’s Ferry Days Special Edition WE SALUTE: OUR SPONSORS: They Make Hayden’s Ferry Days Happen Tempe Historical Society and Tempe History WE SALUTE OUR 2019 SPONSORS Founder Sponsorship: Museum salute those who have signed on as JOSEPH W. BIRCHETT sponsors for the fourth annual running of Emerald Sponsorship: Hayden’s Ferry Days celebrating Tempe’s 1871 CITY OF TEMPE founding as Hayden’s Ferry. Without the financial Settler Sponsorship: help of our sponsors, you would not be able to SALLY S. CLARK enjoy the many facets of the celebration - from Diamond Sponsorship: getting to know more about our city’s history via JERRY W. BROCK FOUNDATION, Tempe Homesteader Sponsorship: ROBERT & MARGARET MORONEY events such as Walk through History tours and Silver Sponsorship: events at historic houses to the majorly festive HALLMAN and AFFILIATES, PC, Tempe Rancher Sponsorship: and fun Hayden’s Ferry Days Festival. Hugh Hallman LOANN & EDWIN BELL, The Society can always use the help of - and very much appreciate - new sponsors, especially CHARLOTTE VARELA Copper Sponsorships: as we look ahead to the coming-up Hayden’s LAKESHORE MUSIC INC., Tempe Ferry Days celebration of Tempe’s Sesqui- WE AGAIN THANK OUR 2018 SPONSORS: Woody Wilson, President centennial. That’s Tempe’s 150th birthday and it’s • Jerry W. Brock Foundation just a couple more years down the road in 2021. • Gammage & Burnham Law Firm The Society, Museum and the City, want to make GAMMAGE & BURNHAM LAW FIRM that celebration one to especially remember. Phoenix • Wexford Developments If you happen to see - or are a customer of - Sterling Sponsorships: • Sender Associates Law Firm any of our sponsors and you enjoy Hayden’s FRIENDS OF TEMPE PUBLIC LIBRARY • Arizona State University-Office of Ferry Days festivities, please let them know you Government & Community appreciate their help making those events TEMPE TOURISM • Hallman & Affiliates, PC possible. (And plan on taking in those activities in DICK AND JANE NEUHEISEL, LIGOURI • Southwest Gas February and March - see pages 2-4) Tempe Sister Cities dministrator of Public Affairs Sponsorships range from $500 up to $10,000. • Phoenix Analysis & Design Southwest G Technologies (PADT) • Friends of Tempe Public Library • Tempe Firefighters Union - Local 393 • Lakeshore Music • Tempe Tourism • Opus Development Company • Swire Coca-Cola USA • Sender Associates Law Firm TICKETS - EVENT BRITE online is the main place to buy tickets this year for Ferry Days events requiring them but tickets will also be available at Tempe History Museum’s front desk and some at Hackett House. Except for the Founders Day dinner, tickets are $25. INSIDE. PAGE 2 - 2019 Ferry Days Events - Founders Day Dinner BACK AGAIN to help Tempeans celebrate their community’s history during PAGE 3 - Festival Happenings Hayden’s Ferry Days, AZ Cattle Co.’s ranching family will be cooking up a frontier - Adobe Houses Tour style meal for the opening event - a Founders Day dinner at historic Hackett House PAGE 4 - 2018 Ferry Days photos on February 22. Judging from above photo taken at last year’s event, nobody went BIGGER AND BETTER: As the countdown to Tempe’s 250th birthday narrows, Tempe Historical Days Festival on the grounds in front of Tempe History Museum mostly Society’s goal of making each year’s Hayden’s Ferry Days celebration but there will be activities inside the museum for children. The Festival is bigger and better on the way to a real blast celebrating that 2021 free and provides a wide variety of activities for all ages from Sesquicentennial is showing up this year. demonstrations of various crafts to music by various musical groups. It For newcomers who may not know, Hayden’s Ferry was the name briefly will entertain and educate visitors from 1 to 5 p.m. (see page 3) given back in 1871 to what became the little town of Tempe. It was named Carrying Hayden’s Ferry Days on into March will be “Landmark Tours for founder Charles Trumbull Hayden’s innovative ferry across the Salt of Historic Houses” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on March 2. It’s neither a bus River which gave folks (horses and wagons!) on this side of the river a way nor a walking tour, you’ll have to get to the houses under your own to get to the other side and on their way to Phoenix when the river ran full.. steam for a self-guided tour. Open for you to see will be the famous Ferry Days chairman Richard Bauer, past Tempe Historical Society Petersen House Museum, Hackett House, Elias-Rodriguez House and president, says festivities planned in this new year of 2019 for the fourth the luxurious Eisendrath House. annual celebration of the founding of Hayden’s Ferry are scheduled from There will be another occasion to visit a couple of those historic February 22 when the traditional Founders Dinner will kick it off (see story houses on March 3 when both the hilltop Eisendrath House and Petersen below) through March 16 when the 15th Annual Catch-A-Wave Car Show House Museum will be sites for “Historic House Teas.” The garden staged by Tempe Nuevo Kiwanis Club at Kiwanis Park becomes a new teas and tours will start at 2 p.m. Such afternoon teas were once a very part of the Hayden’s Ferry Days celebration. popular social event in many communities across the U.S.A. - even in the In between there will be February 23 Walks Through History Tours “old wild West.” Hayden’s Ferry founder Charles Trumbull Hayden’s wife, including a 9-11 a.m. “Outside and Inside Tour” of historic buildings on Sallie Davis Hayden, hosted teas at the Hayden home - and the Hayden Mill Avenue - among them Tempe Hardware Store. Its upstairs “attic” over daughters, Sally and Mary, in later years opened and ran a tea house in the years served many purposes including a ballroom, a meeting place for the old Hayden house - La Casa Vieja. Tempe organizations (among them the Odd Fellows for whom the ballroom Last of the 2019 Hayden’s Ferry Days events will be a newcomer to the was named), Tempe City Council meetings, an early elementary school celebration though it is marking its 15th year as a Tempe event. That’s class, an art gallery and a little theater group. the Kiwanis Club of Tempe Nuevo’s Catch-A-Wave Car Show and it Among the hardware store’s last owners was John J. Curry, a prominent will be a 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. happening at Tempe’s Kiwanis Park on March and well liked Tempe citizen. He also served as Maricopa County’s Works 16. You’ll see lots of old cars there from many decades. (If you have an Project Administration administrator during the Great Depression old vehicle you would like to show off you can find information and entry overseeing construction of the Moeur Activity building at Arizona State forms on the Kiwanis Club of Tempe Nuevo web site. ) University among other projects. With the exception of the Founders Dinner most of this year’s Hayden’s Also on February 23, a second of the “Walk Through History Tours” will Ferry’s Days pay-for events are $25. See the Hayden’s Ferry Days 2019 be a 1-4 p.m. event. There won’t really be much walking though. The online site for tickets information. “We’ll Always Have Adobe“ tour will bus participants to six historic In addition to the Historical Society’s “forever partner” - the adobe homes in Tempe. Leading that tour will be a former Tempe mayor, Tempe History Museum - partners in the Hayden’s Ferry Day Hugh Hallman, and he and some friends will talk about the architecture of celebrations this year include the City of Tempe Arts & Culture, the houses and the people who live or have lived in them. (see story page Tempe Sister Cities, Friends of Tempe Library,Tempe Historic 3). Always a big - and fun -part of Hayden’s Ferry Days is the free Ferry Preservation Foundation and the Rio Salado Foundation. A ‘Pair To Draw To’ Should Draw Lots of Pairs To HFD Founders Dinner Claimed by the Halls of Fame of both Arizona Music and Entertainment and Arizona Tourism, Dolan and his music were read into the Congressional Record by the late Senator John McCain. Ellis now goes “on the road” with his own one-man show entertaining throughout Arizona and spends time at the Arizona Folklore Preserve he founded in Ramsey Canyon in the Huachuca Mountains as a place for celebrating and preserving songs and stories of Western heritage and culture. In partnership with the University of Arizona South, the preserve was expanded in 2001 with the building of a Folklore center including a state-of-the-art theater. Marshall Trimble doesn’t need much of an introduction to Tempe folks. Known as the “Will Rogers of Arizona” and the “Dean of Arizona Historians,” the Arizona native was born on a farm between Tempe and Mesa, attended Kyrene school and Phoenix College. He retired from teaching in 2014 after having taught Arizona history in high schools You can’t pack much more history into one evening than having two of (where he virtually had to write the “history book” himself) and for 40 Arizona’s most revered “storytellers” sing and tell tales about Arizona’s years at Scottsdale Community College. He’s been a frequent speaker history, cowboys cooking your old Western-style dinner on Dutch Ovens at Tempe Historical Society and Tempe Museum events. near a covered wagon, and feasting on that meal in a building that’s been Trimble’s knowledge of Arizona and the Old West has poured into around for 130 years.

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